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Thread ID: 72763 2006-09-25 05:51:00 Recommend me a webhost Vijizzle (11196) Press F1
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487163 2006-09-25 05:51:00 Hey guys,

I was just wondering if someoe could recommend a decent webhost.
Im just starting up a website and most of the deals look fairly similiar to me - so it would help if I could have someones opinion before I make a final decision.

I dont suppose anyone could tell me what I wouold have to do to get rid of my old site which is hosted through the yellow pages?

Thanks in advance. 		Vijizzle (11196)
487164 2006-09-25 06:21:00 Hello Vijizzle :)

Welcome to PressF1 :)


I was just wondering if someoe could recommend a decent webhost.

www.webdrive.co.nz - ImagreF1.net.nz is hosted there & my boss is with them as well & they are Good :)

www.iserve.co.nz

www.webbase.co.nz

A few sites that you may also want to have a look at:

http://www.hostinghub.co.nz/

http://www.weblist.co.nz/

www.netguide.co.nz

http://www.nzdevelopers.com/


I dont suppose anyone could tell me what I wouold have to do to get rid of my old site which is hosted through the yellow pages?

Have you tried to contact them/ look at there support section?

I Hope this helps :), if you have any other questions or what any more information let us know. 		stu161204 (123)
487165 2006-09-26 06:52:00 Cheers Steve that helped heaps! Vijizzle (11196)
487166 2006-09-26 07:12:00 Cheers Steve that helped heaps!

You mean Stu ;) :) :D 		stu161204 (123)
487167 2006-09-26 10:12:00 I dont suppose anyone could tell me what I wouold have to do to get rid of my old site which is hosted through the yellow pages?
Simply phone them up to cancel.

And if you need any specific help feel free to drop me a private message. 		Greg (193)
487168 2006-09-26 11:21:00 Im just starting up a website and most of the deals look fairly similiar to me - so it would help if I could have someones opinion before I make a final decision.

A few tips when selecting a host:

1) Contact their tech support and see if the response time and quality of the response meets your expectations.
2) Ask for a file to download off their servers so you can get an idea of download speeds (try during the day, or another time when overloading on Telecom's network won't influence the result). You should be averaging well over 100kbps.
3) Check they have an uptime guarantee and ask to see past success in meeting it.
4) Avoid heavy over sellers. You should expect to pay around US$10 for each 1GB or space and 50GB of transfer you get. Use that as a basis for calculating whether the host is super cheap, super expensive or about right.
5) Don't be tempted to buy from a heavy over seller. ie. avoid the 5GB space 100GB transfer, just $5 per month sort of deals.

Hope that helps. :) 		maccrazy (6741)
487169 2006-09-26 12:42:00 A few tips when selecting a host:

1) Contact their tech support and see if the response time and quality of the response meets your expectations.
2) Ask for a file to download off their servers so you can get an idea of download speeds (try during the day, or another time when overloading on Telecom's network won't influence the result). You should be averaging well over 100kbps.
3) Check they have an uptime guarantee and ask to see past success in meeting it.
4) Avoid heavy over sellers. You should expect to pay around US$10 for each 1GB or space and 50GB of transfer you get. Use that as a basis for calculating whether the host is super cheap, super expensive or about right.
5) Don't be tempted to buy from a heavy over seller. ie. avoid the 5GB space 100GB transfer, just $5 per month sort of deals.

Hope that helps. :)

Nice tips maccrazy :)

Another one I think might be useful:

6 ) When looking for NZ hosting compeer a well know NZ based web host with other web hosts you look at as soon you can pick out the US hosts from the nz based servers ( & possibly the over sellers) 		stu161204 (123)
487170 2006-09-26 23:33:00 MyHost (http://www.myhost.co.nz/)

This is the one I recommend to all my web design clients.

:thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs: 		braindead (1685)
487171 2006-09-27 00:51:00 A few tips when selecting a host:


4) Avoid heavy over sellers. You should expect to pay around US$10 for each 1GB or space and 50GB of transfer you get. Use that as a basis for calculating whether the host is super cheap, super expensive or about right.
5) Don't be tempted to buy from a heavy over seller. ie. avoid the 5GB space 100GB transfer, just $5 per month sort of deals.

Hope that helps. :)

Those figures are if you buy from a host that has their hosting servers in the USA. Space and bandwidth like that are irrelevent for most websites, as most sites are under 10MB in size and use less than half a GB of traffic a month. Companies that offer those sorts of figures will likely to be overselling. I recommend using a provider in NZ who has their servers located in NZ. I have had too many bad experiences with NZ hosting comapnies that use USA servers, with bad uptime. Uptime guarrantees are also worthless, as they often contract out of both hardware and software faults, and they also may only refund you for the period the servers are down for. My old host that used USA servers, my website was down for 4 days, while they transferred backup data from NZ to the USA after the servers harddrives became corrupted. 		rogerp (6864)
487172 2006-09-27 00:56:00 MyHost (http://www.myhost.co.nz/)

This is the one I recommend to all my web design clients.

:thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs:

Quite expensive compared to other hosts, and they use USA based servers instead of NZ servers. They also have had a major outage on their server which caused qute a bit of downtime at www.myhost.co.nz .
You want a host that has backup systems in place, so when one server fails all the data is on another server that can kick in straight away reducing the downtime. 		rogerp (6864)
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